Soviet Cialis
April 10, 2008
My Spam intake at work has progressively gotten more & more Russian, to the point where nearly 20% of the emails I receive are in a cyrillic alphabet. I don’t usually read my spam, but I’m actually mildly disappointed that I can’t see what my comrades are selling.
In my imagination, which is fueled entirely by 1980’s cold-war propaganda like Rocky IV & Red Dawn, I suspect most of the products being shilled are cheap communist variants of western products. Like, instead of discount viagra, it’s probably some sort of beet-based concotion that promises to “increase sexy powers” in borat-esque pidgin English.
The weird thing is, I’ve checked with a few co-workers, and none of them are getting Russian spam. I’m pretty sure this is related to some suspicious shopping I may have done on a certain Russian mp3 site a while back. In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have used my primary email address, but in truth, a 20% increase in the amount of spam I get is like a 20% increase in the amount of awesome I am. The baseline is so high that the overall difference is not noticeable.
I get a lot of Russian spam too. I always assumed it was because, until very recently, my domain was hosted by an ISP (ISPServer) that is based in Russia and that billed me in euros (although I think my server was in Scranton).
Didn’t you have to put in a email when you went through that phase of trying to order a Russian Bride as a Nanny.